Vishal Gupta over at our forums had posted an excellent tutorial on adding program shortcuts in desktop context menu.
The thing is, u can add a shortcut for ur favorite program, (like Windows Media Player, firefox, opera, winamp, etc) in Desktop context menu (which is also applied to explorer context menu)
So the method is as following:
1.) Copy ur favorite application’s EXE file from its own folder (like winamp.exe, firefox.exe, etc) to following folder:
C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\ (Assuming C: is ur system drive, otherwise change it to ur system drive).
2.) Now delete helpctr.exe file in that folder and give the same name to ur copied EXE file. (i.e., first delete helpctr.exe file and then rename ur copied EXE file (like winamp.exe) to helpctr.exe ).
3.) Now the final part. Open Shell32.dll file in Resource Hacker and goto: Menu -> 215. here add the following line to anywhere, u want to add the shortcut (like u can add this line just below the “Refresh” menu, as I hv done in my screenshot):
MENUITEM “Title”, 28785, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
In “Title”, give the Label which u want to be appeared in context menu (like Winamp, Media Player, Firefox, etc.)
4.) Now compile the file and save it, and finally replace Shell32.dll file with this hacked one.
And Voilla! Now after restarting the system, u can see a new shortcut in the context menu for ur desired application
PS: The above method might cause Help Centre to not work properly, coz we hv replaced the helpctr.exe file with some other EXE file, so apply this method if u don’t want to use help centre, though I hv not checked it coz I hv removed the HElp Centre from windows
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- By Anand on May 23, 2007
navjotsingh over at our forums had posted a useful guide on how to download Youtube videos. We thought it would be useful for our readers. See, we do care about you.
Here it is.
Steps:
1. First Select the video you want to download. Copy its link which would be something like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k7OkWpfTz1U
2. Now visit www.youtubex.com -(Note the extra x here)…and put the above link in youtubex.com’s box.
3. Click Download button and it will open a new page with download link. Paste this download link in any download manager to download.
4. Now if required rename the file to give it .flv extension.
5. Open the file in VLC media player to play it.
If you want to convert into popular media formats like AVI or Mpeg, use Free FLV Converter from http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3
But mind you, quality will still not be upto a normal Mpeg or AVI file type.
Btw the sample youtube.com link given above points to the original Mile Sur mera tumhara video….a rare video….a must watch!
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- By Anand on May 1, 2007
Snehasis Ghosh over at our forums had posted a guide on how to feather an image in Photoshop.
Step One- Open a new document in Photoshop, and select two images you want to feather. Place them overlapping one another on top of your background in the new document.
Step Two- Select your rectangular marquee tool and use these settings….
Step Three- Select the layer in your document which you wish to “feather”, or blend.
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- By Anand on Apr 25, 2007
hmasalia over at our forums had posted an excellent guide for people contemplating DTH.
DTH Guide with Indian perspective
This is a basic guide which I have come up with for the people who are looking to go for DTH. I have tried to keep it simple so that everyone can understand it.
I had been working on this for last couple of days. Any comments/suggestions are welcome.
In the first section it explains the basic terminologies behind DTH and the second section talks about the DTH providers and their services available in India.
Section A: Basic Terminologies Explained
What is DTH?
DTH (Direct to Home) is also known as Satellite TV. It works by delivering video and audio signals from geostationary satellites to the dishes installed at viewer’s house. The transmission is done via radio signals. The satellites carry a number of transponders which are responsible for sending signals to Earth. Each transponder has the capacity to hold number of channels but compression technology can be used to accommodate more channels. The signals transmitted are then received by the dish installed at viewer’s house.
What is Dish?
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- By Anand on Apr 20, 2007
